Before
Chris Farley starred on Saturday Night
Live, he was a featured improv performer at Chicago's famous Second City.
And while there, alongside Bob Odenkirk and Tim Meadows, Farley began
perfecting his beloved SNL characters.

On Monday,
Second City uploaded a grainy VHS video from July 1990, the same year Farley
began his run on SNL, but three years
before he would debut his beloved character Matt Foley, a "motivational
speaker" who lives in a van down by the river.
The video shows an early glimpse of Farley's Foley, as he enters the
stage two minutes in, telling the children:

My name is Matt Foley, and I am a
motivational speaker. Now, let's get started by me giving you a little bit of a
scenario of what my life is all about. First off, I am 35 years old, I am
divorced, and I live in a van down by the river!

The
yelling, pants-pulling, and enthusiasm are all the same; the only thing missing is broken furniture.